Example sentences of "as a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher , like Mr Heath before her , clearly regarded Opposition as a time of preparation for government . |
| 2 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 3 | The 1960 were , as we can see now , in some ways rightly to be thought of as a time of indulgence . |
| 4 | The image of old age as a time of pain , illness and disease has often implied that older people actually owe their continuing existence to medical expertise alone . |
| 5 | The negative image of old age as a time of increasing dependency is discussed throughout this book and is evident in many assumptions about the nature of health in later life . |
| 6 | It is easy — too easy , perhaps — to see the last decades of the 1700s as a time of unalleviated misery for a large part of the population of the British Isles . |
| 7 | Albini — unlike many — recalls '80s alternative rock as a time of goofiness . |
| 8 | To the Soviet mind , the ‘ bourgeois ’ view of war as a breakdown of normality , and peace as a time of cooperation and goodwill , is quixotic . |
| 9 | A recent report by the BMA has confirmed that stress and disillusionment are common among young doctors , and various reports have pinpointed the preregistration year as a time of considerable unhappiness , up to half of preregistration house officers suffering from clinical depression during the year . |
| 10 | Conversely youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health . |
| 11 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
| 12 | Within the remembered traditions of the ‘ British way of life ’ , the late Victorian and Edwardian years — from the Gay Nineties until the Great War — hold a privileged position as a time of unrivalled tranquility . |
| 13 | Rowland , who this year celebrates 30 years as head of Lonrho , sees the 1990s as a time of great opportunity particularly in Eastern Europe and South Africa . |
| 14 | Parenthood is generally recognised as a time of crisis and adjustment . |
| 15 | Scott 's novels had created a view of the remoter British past as a time of high romance and chivalry . |
| 16 | If the special needs that arise from these states of dependency are met fully and promptly then the problems will be kept to a minimum and on balance old age will be experienced as a time of contentment . |
| 17 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 18 | The New Year holiday lasts for three days and is seen as a time of fresh starts , new resolutions and auspicious omens . |
| 19 | Traditionally , literary criticism — which generally has supported the conservative idea of the period as a time of disruption and rebellion has made out a case for the poem 's balanced quality in praising both Cromwell and Charles I. Marvell may have later been an employee of Cromwell 's Latin Secretariat , but his poem shows an independent impartiality which avoids political commitment . |
| 20 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 21 | Faced with such an upward price trend it is hardly surprising that historians have tended to present the war years as a time of deteriorating living standards . |
| 22 | Norma remembers it as a time of great happiness tinged with much sadness , for the pub was adopted by the Canadians and Americans stationed at Middleton St George . |
| 23 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 24 | A great deal of importance is attached to planning and administration as it is seen as a time for problem-solving as opposed to task allocation . |